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Beyond the Working Alliance: Working with Intense Dynamic Alliances |
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Presented by Thomas M. Brod, MD
11/14/2009
Fee: $40.00
This course is open to licensed health and mental health professionals only.
This course focuses on the fundamental issue of therapeutic alliances in intense dynamic psychotherapy. Classically, alliance in psychoanalysis was considered peripheral to the therapeutic process or a parameter of the relationship. Inter-subjectivity requires intense observation of mutual unconscious influence on alliance/misalliance. Habib Davanloo has differentiated conscious alliances from a specific dynamic, the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance and demonstrated how each has an essential and naturalistic function in the course of successful therapy. The course reviews these core clinical concepts and demonstrates practical approaches to transference-counter-transference management. Videotape vignettes are used.
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This course focuses on the fundamental issue of therapeutic alliances in intense dynamic psychotherapy. Classically, alliance in psychoanalysis was considered peripheral to the therapeutic process or a parameter of the relationship. Inter-subjectivity requires intense observation of mutual unconscious influence on alliance/misalliance. Habib Davanloo has differentiated conscious alliances from a specific dynamic, the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance and demonstrated how each has an essential and naturalistic function in the course of successful therapy. The course reviews these core clinical concepts and demonstrates practical approaches to transference-counter-transference management. Videotape vignettes are used.
Since this course is intended for advanced licensed clinicians, permission of the instructor is required for non-psychoanalysts prior to registration for this course.
Course Objectives
· Differentiate the use of “therapeutic alliance” in several psychoanalytic clinical theories
· Understand the naturalistic relationship between conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliances
· Effectively utilize several types of pressure in the intensification of the conscious therapeutic alliance
· Discuss the relationship of painful emotional experience, Resistance, and the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance in Davanloo’s ISTDP
· Effectively utilize several techniques to safely facilitate such alliances in their own clinical practice
Thomas M. Brod, M.D., Faculty, the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA, and in private practice in West Los Angeles.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
9 AM – 12 Noon
New Center for Psychoanalysis
$40 pre-registration; $45 at the door
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